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authorWei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>2016-06-17 17:33:59 +0000
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2017-07-18 18:40:30 +0100
commit0fe5f30505457b4eeaaaea23ae85cbae58ac5b2d (patch)
tree7442fec21385e7785ee81567046779c6d5944332 /kernel
parent9421a4cde12c43c9d23d532126c56843cc9d96f4 (diff)
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ring-buffer: Fix return value check in test_ringbuffer()
commit 62277de758b155dc04b78f195a1cb5208c37b2df upstream. In case of error, the function kthread_run() returns ERR_PTR() and never returns NULL. The NULL test in the return value check should be replaced with IS_ERR(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466184839-14927-1-git-send-email-weiyj_lk@163.com Fixes: 6c43e554a ("ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 79bf62b4e740..f6cd04706164 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -4899,9 +4899,9 @@ static __init int test_ringbuffer(void)
rb_data[cpu].cnt = cpu;
rb_threads[cpu] = kthread_create(rb_test, &rb_data[cpu],
"rbtester/%d", cpu);
- if (WARN_ON(!rb_threads[cpu])) {
+ if (WARN_ON(IS_ERR(rb_threads[cpu]))) {
pr_cont("FAILED\n");
- ret = -1;
+ ret = PTR_ERR(rb_threads[cpu]);
goto out_free;
}
@@ -4911,9 +4911,9 @@ static __init int test_ringbuffer(void)
/* Now create the rb hammer! */
rb_hammer = kthread_run(rb_hammer_test, NULL, "rbhammer");
- if (WARN_ON(!rb_hammer)) {
+ if (WARN_ON(IS_ERR(rb_hammer))) {
pr_cont("FAILED\n");
- ret = -1;
+ ret = PTR_ERR(rb_hammer);
goto out_free;
}